Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jason’s bosom buddy Tatts (Stickers to his pals) couldn’t make it to Menangle last night to watch his mate work another miracle. He was otherwise occupied being detained at His Majesty’s pleasure In the 12 months before being transferred from trainer Wendy Turnbull to the stables of Jason Grimson the 5-year old pacer Huta had […]
Kiwi trainer Scott Dickson pulled off a massive plunge in the last race at Cambridge this evening with Melton Mogul, which was backed from $51.oo into $7.50 with bookmakers on both sides of the Tasman and landed the prize. Media Mogul came into the race with the form of a three-legged camel with a record […]
Stood down South Australian harness racing trainer jokes about his green thumb and hydro setups in this interview with Piranha Media’s Rocky Butterworth late last year, before laughing off the rumors of his being involved in drugs by saying ‘give us a spell’. Sadly if you believe what the Victorian Police say, Luke O’Neill was […]
The Ryan Hryhorec trained seven-year-old pacer Lord Zarias didn’t just break the 2530m track record at Port Pirie last night, he smashed it into smithereens. The previous mark over the staying trip was 1.58.4 Lord Zarias ran 1.56.7. That’s about 20 meters faster. Driver Gaita Pullicino reeled off splits of 29.2, 29.7. 27.4 and 29.1 […]
Maestro QLD bush trainer Bevan ‘Billy’ Johnson may not have affected the weights for the 1450m Country Cups qualifier at Mt Isa by putting in a dummy nomination for Han Dynasty (see story here), but there is more than one cat to skin at the races and more than one way to skin it. Billy […]
STEWARDS REPORT – MOUNT ISA: SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 On Thursday, 25 September 2025, Stewards questioned trainer Mr Bevan Johnson regarding the nomination of HAN DYNASTY for both a 1,000 metre and a 1,450-metre race at Mount Isa on Saturday, 27 September 2025. Of particular concern was that HAN DYNASTY, which in 48 race starts […]
Toowoomba trainer Mark Currie realized a long-held dream this afternoon by winning the Weetwood Handicap at his home track with Tavs, and then made it a feature race double when Cryptolini took out the Toowoomba Guineas. Both were outstanding training performances. Tavs, a NSW restricted grade galloper when he joined the Currie stable, was first-up […]
In an occurrence as rare as Halley’s Comet, NSW’s leading trainer Jason Grimson has finally trained a 2-year-old winner. Grimson rarely plays in the juvenile pond so hasn’t made many attempts at winning with a youngster in the past, but he proved with the win of the Glen Holland bred, Mick Boots owned Bettorleftalone at […]
When is the last time you evert saw a 2-horse race at a metro meeting on a Saturday run on a Good 4 track? How about never, until yesterday. There were eight accepted starters for race 1 at Eagle Farm, a Maiden run over the distance of 2406m. Six of them were scratched, leaving the […]
Queensland gallops trainer Kerrod Smyth has been disqualified for 10 months after one of his maiden gallopers returned a positive swab to elevated levels of TCO2 after a race at Rockhampton in July. 38.5 mmol/L carbon monoxide was the reading the horse returned, well in excess of the threshold of 36.0 and almost certainly indicative […]
